What is the cultural difference between Egypt and the US?

Answer 1

all the countries in the world, hardly any two are more closely related than the United States and Egypt, but there are striking historical similarities between these two nations. In a very broad manner, Egypt is the United States' older brother, and there are important lessons to be learned from older brothers. This is certainly one of the reasons many more Americans should visit this ancient land.

The combination of a beautiful superpower country rich in resources, but also isolated from their neighbors influenced both the people of Egypt and the modern United States. It was difficult for the common, ancient Egyptian man to transverse the deserts into foreign lands, just as today, it is often prohibitively expensive for a common American to fly to Europe or Asia. At the same time, there was superior Law and Order at home for both nations, and a beautiful domestic landscape for both peoples to explore and idolize. The ancient Egyptians loved their land just as modern Americans love theirs, and for many of the same reasons.

Hence, both in the modern United States and in ancient Egypt, there was wariness about the outside world. Egyptians saw foreign lands as chaotic and basically, unsafe regions of rather inferior people. Though it may be politically incorrect to make such a statement, many common Americans think in similar terms. Those attitudes in both lands concerning chaos and safety likely resulted from isolation, while the feelings of superiority spring from their residence in a superpower.

In fact, ancient Egypt was a place that people migrated to, not from, just as they do to the United States today. However, just as they come to the United States today, people migrated to Egypt mostly to share in its bountiful resources rather than to escape any chaos of the outside world.

Both the United States and ancient Egypt raised large, http://wiki.answers.com/magazine/military.htm. And though both sent their military far afield in relative terms, neither sought especially to colonize regions outside their country. Rather, most of the military actions were simply to defend and protect their borders, sometimes by establishing peripheral corridors. Egypt was seen by its ancient rulers as a paradise amongst a world that they actually ruled. They were not merely the kings of Egypt, but of the ancient world, at least in their own minds, and today, we also see the United States, secure in its own borders, but also seeing itself in the role of policing the world. However, regardless of their might, both countries suffered military quagmires. For the United States, it was Vietnam, and perhaps others conflicts such as Korea. For the Egyptians, http://wiki.answers.com/featurestories/kadesh1.htm, where they mostly fought for a stalemate against the http://wiki.answers.com/featurestories/hittites.htm.